Messager / Munchner Rundfunkorchester - Passionnement - Music CD

Normandy in the Annes Folles. Romantic encounters, changes of identity and unexpected comic twists: in Passionnment, Andr Messager places himself at the intersection of caf-concert, American popular music and French operetta. The score is swept along with great spirit by Vronique Gens, tienne Dupuis, Nicole Car and a team of enthusiastic soloists accompanied by the Mnchner Rundfunkorchester under Stefan Blunier. As witty as Messager's music, the libretto, with it's flavor of boulevard theatre, offers a genuine manifesto of the French spirit in the years after the First World War.